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Statik Selektah turns Expensive Taste into a cross-regional producer showcase

Boston production gives a sprawling lineup one coherent musical identity.

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  • Statik Selektah: Audiomack artist profile

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Expensive Taste arrived November 6 with 21 tracks listed on Apple Music. The project features a broad group of emcees; Statik Selektah’s choices in production and sequencing create the throughline.

The album is particularly useful for a producer/engineer column: listeners can compare how the same beatmaker accommodates radically different artists while keeping a recognizable sonic signature.

PRODUCERS AT THE CENTER — A producer album tells a different story than a conventional solo emcee project. The continuity lives in the musical decisions, while each collaborator brings a different delivery and audience. Expensive Taste provides a contemporary case study for listeners interested in drums, sample choices, transitions and the way a recognizable producer can frame a large group of voices.

THE STUDIO ANGLE — Lux Amplify will treat beatmakers and audio engineers as part of the culture, not as invisible back-room personnel. Accurate production, recording and mixing credits should appear beside artist links whenever officially supplied; speculation about who worked on a track is not a substitute for the credits.

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  • Statik Selektah — artist-photo: Audiomack artist profile

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